My husband got his mtDNA results back, and he is T2. These are his results:

HVR1 DIFFERENCES FROM rCRS

16126C 16294T 16296T 16304C 16519C

HVR2 DIFFERENCES FROM rCRS

73G 263G 309.1C 315.1C

His maternal line has close ties with Scotland [Midlands] and apparently, Normandy further back on history. Hope this info helps!

----A little info on this haplogroup, of which I know next to nothing!: The mitochondrial haplogroup T is best characterized as a European lineage. With an origin in the Near East greater than 45,000 years ago, the major sub-lineages of haplogroup T entered Europe around the time of the Neolithic 10,000 years ago. Once in Europe, these sub-lineages underwent a dramatic expansion associated with the arrival of agriculture in Europe. Haplogroup T2 is one of the older sub-lineages and may have been present in Europe as early as the Late Upper Palaeolithic.

ErikMaher wrote:More specifically, looks like he is T2b. If he hasn't done so already, have him join the T2 project on FTDNA. Then, go to the T2 project page and click on mtDNA Results to see where it puts him.

Thank you, Erik. I believe he ordered the full mtDNA sequence, and it should be completed by now, so I will check. If so, I will post the results here as well. Based on his genealogy, he is very settled in Scotland [for lack of a better word], with his maternal line leaving Scotland rather recently [late 1800s]. Other than that, I can trace his ancestry to a Symon deHorsbroc [b.1214 d. 1249] in Scotland [although this is more of a paternal line, really, not related to mtDNA; however, if these men married Scottish women, which looks like the norm rather than the exception [based on his family tree], then the maternal lineage could be considered Scottish as well].

I checked, but the test ordered only tested HVR1 and HVR2. I have the fasta file, so I will run it on James Lick mtDNA tool to get a possible prediction.I don't know if there is a FTDNA test to upgrade and test the coding region as well.

I am slowly learning. I checked the FTDNA T2 Project, but the full sequence is needed to assign him a sub-clade. The Pike 2010 paper lists a rather long listing of subclades, from T2b all the way to T2b23a [for those interested, this is the link to the article: http://www.jogg.info/62/files/Pike.pdf]

I was hoping for a simple answer, but it is clear to me that the coding region is needed in this case. T2 is not enough to get the info that I am looking for, such as an age estimate, a possible geographical origin [high frequency here or there]. Further, analysis of the coding region may actually relocate him in a different haplogroup [I am referring to the example listed int eh Pike article, of an individual who was initially placed in T2, but upon analysis of the coding region, was placed in D!!]. FTDNA, here I come... again!

For anyone else out there, lost as I am, here is some good info:

T2b --> apparently 13,000 ytp [years to the present]

In 1998, Richards et al. estimated the age of haplogroup T to be at least 46,500 years, the age of the T1 subgroup to be about 9,000 years, and the remainder of T (i.e., all but T1) to be about 32,000 years.

Pike's 2010 paper --> haplogroup T may be on the order of 47,500 years old.